Year 1947 in Film & Television

Events in Film & TV

• Jan 1 WTTG TV channel 5 in Washington, D.C. (MET) begins broadcasting
• Jan 3 1st opening session of Congress to be televised

• Jan 22 1st commercial TV station west of Mississippi opens in Hollywood, California
• Feb 8 KSD (now KSDK) TV channel 5 in St Louis, MO (NBC) begins broadcasting
• Feb 19 CBS radio premiere of Villa-Lobos' "Bachianas Brasilieras No 3"

• Mar 4 WWJ (now WDIV) TV channel 4 in Detroit, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
• Mar 13 19th Academy Awards: "Best Years of Our Lives", De Havilland, March win
• Apr 1 Shin Takarajima (New Treasure Island) by Osamu Tezuka published, first manga cartoon in tankōbon form

• May 7 "Kraft Television Theater" premieres on NBC
• Jun 27 WRC TV channel 4 in Washington, D.C. (NBC) begins broadcasting
• Aug 23 8th Venice Film Festival opens (first since the start of World War II)
• Sep 13 WPVI TV channel 6 in Philadelphia, PA (ABC) begins broadcasting
• Sep 25 2nd Cannes Film Festival ends
• Sep 30 In first televised World Series Baseball game, NY Yankees beat Brooklyn Dodgers, 5-3 in Game 1 at Yankee Stadium; also largest WS crowd to date, 73,365


• Oct 3 WMAL (now WJLA) TV channel 7 in Washington, D.C. (ABC) begins

• Oct 20 HUAC opens hearings into alleged Communist influence in Hollywood

• Oct 27 WMAR TV channel 2 in Baltimore, MD (NBC) begins broadcasting
• Nov 6 NBC's "Meet the Press" debuts - US's longest running TV show
• Nov 11 "Gentlemen's Agreement" directed by Elia Karan and starring Gregory Peck and Dorothy McGuire premieres in New York (Best Picture 1948)
• Nov 12 KPO-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KNBC (now KNBR)
• Nov 17 The U.S. Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath.
• Nov 21 Bill Longson beats Lou Thesz in St Louis, to win National Wrestlingg Association world heavyweight title
• Nov 24 The US House of Representatives Committee on Un-American Activities finds "Hollywood 10" in contempt because of their refusal to reveal whether they were communists
• Nov 25 The 1st systematic Hollywood blacklist is instituted, denying employment to American entertainment professionals due to alleged Communist ties or sympathies
• Dec 17 WEWS TV channel 5 in Cleveland, Ohio (ABC) begins broadcasting
• Dec 27 1st "Howdy Doody Show" (Puppet Playhouse), telecast on NBC

Birthdays in Film & TV

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 194

• Jan 4 Rick Stein, English chef and television presenter
• Jan 5 Ted Lange, American actor (Isaac-Love Boat, Mr T & Tina), born in Oakland, California
• Jan 11 Anna Calder-Marshall, English actress (Zulu Dawn), born in Kensington, England
• Jan 16 Juliet Berto, French actress (Le Sex Shop), born in Grenoble France (d. 1990)
• Jan 17 Jane Elliot, American actress (Baby Boom, Gen Hospital, Knots Landing), born in New York City, New York
• Jan 17 Todd Susman, American actor (Goodnight Beantown), born in St Louis, Missouri
• Jan 18 Takeshi Kitano, Japanese actor (The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi, Fireworks), born in Tokyo, Japan
• Jan 19 Alessandro Haber, actor (China is Near)
• Jan 19 Ann Compton, news reporter (ABC TV)
• Jan 21 Jill Eikenberry, (Ann Kelsey-LA Law, Manhattan Project), born in New Haven, Connecticut
• Jan 26 Patrick Dewaere [PJMH Bordeaux], French actor (Les Valseuses)

• Feb 3 Paul Auster, American author/poet/director (Mr Vertigo, Smoke)
• Feb 3 Stephen McHattie [Smith], Canadian actor (300, Watchmen, The Fountain), born in Antigonish, Nova Scotia
• Feb 4 Jeannie Wilson, actress (Simon & Simon, Stir Crazy), born in Memphis, Tennessee
• Feb 5 David Ladd, American actor (Raymie, Catlow, Misty, Deathline), born in Los Angeles, California
• Feb 11 Joselito [José Jiménez], Spanish singer and actor, born in Beas de Segura, Andalucia, Spain
• Feb 11 Kikko Matsuoka, Japanese actress, born in Tokyo, Japan
• Feb 13 Kevin Bloody Wilson [Dennis Bryant], Australian musical comedian, born in Sydney, Australia
• Feb 15 Marisa Berenson, American actress (Barry Lyndon; Death in Vienna; SOB), born in NYC, New York
• Feb 15 Russell "Rusty "Hamer, American actor (Make Room for Daddy - "Rusty"), born in Tenafly, New Jersey (d. 1990)
• Feb 17 Dallas Adams, British actor, painter and writer (Terror From Within)
• Feb 20 Jennifer O'Neill, actress (Summer of '42), born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Feb 20 Peter Strauss, American actor (The Jericho Mile, Rich Man Poor Man), born in Croton-on-Hudson, New York
• Feb 23 Shakira Caine, Guyana, actress (Man Who be King)/Miss Guyana (1967)
• Feb 24 Edward James Olmos, American actor (Miami Vice, Stand & Deliver, Triumph), born in Los Angeles, California
• Mar 1 Alan Thicke, Canadian actor (Thicke of the Night; Growing Pains), and TV theme song composer (Doff'rent Strokes; The Facts Of Life), born in Kirkland Lake, Ontario (d. 2016)
• Mar 4 David Franzoni, American screenwriter
• Mar 4 Gunnar Hansen, Icelandic-born American actor (Leatherface in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre), born in Reykjavík (d. 2015)
• Mar 5 (Samuel) "Eddie" Hodges, American stage and screen actor and singer ("High Hopes", The Music Man - "Gary, Indiana"; Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi
• Mar 6 Judy Loe, British actress (Singles, Meaning of Life), born in Urmston, England
• Mar 6 Rob Reiner, American actor and director (All in the Family, Stand By Me), born in The Bronx, New York
• Mar 7 Donna Loren, American singer and actress (Beach Blanket Bingo), born in Boston, Massachusetts
• Mar 7 Lewis J Stadlen, American actor (John-Benson, Savages, Windy City), born in Brooklyn, New York
• Mar 7 Richard Lawson, American actor (Eddie-O'Neills), born in Loma Linda, California
• Mar 12 Jill O'Hara, Warren Penn, Broadway actress (Promises! Promises!)
• Mar 15 Juraj Kukura, Slovak actor
• Mar 18 Patrick Chesnais, French actor
• Mar 18 Patrick Barlow, English actor, comedian and playwright

• Mar 23 Terry Alexander, African-American actor (Day of the Dead, One Life to Live), born in Detroit, Michigan
• Mar 23 Barbara Rhodes, Poughkeepsie NY, actress (Don't Just Stand There)
• Mar 24 Meiko Kaji, Japanese singer and actress
• Mar 27 Tom Sullivan, blind actor (If You Could See What I Hear), born in Boston, Massachusetts
• Apr 1 Norm Van Lier, American basketball point guard (NBA All Star 1974, 76, 77; Chicago Bulls) and broadcaster (Comcast SportsNet), born in East Liverpool, Ohio (d. 2009)
• Apr 4 Ray Fosse, American baseball player and broadcaster, born in Marion, Illinois
• Apr 6 John Ratzenberger, American actor (Cliff Clavin in Cheers), born in Bridgeport, Connecticut
• Apr 8 Cindy Pickett, American actress (Guiding Light, St Elsewhere), born in Norman, Oklahoma
• Apr 11 Peter Riegert, American actor (Animal House, Crossing Delancey), born in NYC, New York
• Apr 11 Uli Edel, German film director (Last Exit to Brooklyn), born in Neuenburg am Rhein, South Baden, Germany
• Apr 11 Meshach Taylor, American actor, born in Altadena, CA, (d. 2014)
• Apr 12 Dan Lauria, American actor (Jack Arnold-Wonder Years), born in Brooklyn, New York

• Apr 15 Diane "DeDe" Lind, American glamour model and Playboy playmate (Aug, 1967), born in Los Angeles, California
• Apr 15 Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, American TV producer (Designing Women, Murphy Brown), born in Poplar Bluff, Missouri
• Apr 17 Linda Martin, Irish singer and TV presenter, born in Belfast, Northern Ireland
• Apr 18 Dorothy Lyman, American actress (All my Children, Naomi-Mama's Family), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota

• Apr 18 Lori Martin, American actress (Velvet-National Velvet), born in Glendale, California
• Apr 20 David Leland, English actor and director (Nothing But Trouble), born in Cambridge, England
• Apr 25 Jeffrey DeMunn, American actor (Blaze, Frances, Windy City), born in Buffalo, New York
• Apr 26 Warren Clarke, English actor (Clockwork Orange), born in Oldham, Lancashire, (d. 2014)
• Apr 30 Leslie Grantham, English actor (EastEnders), born in London, England (d. 2018)
• May 6 Ben Masters, American actor (Vic-Another World, Making Mr Right), born in Corvalis, Oregon
• May 6 Alan Dale, New Zealand born actor (Neighbours), born in Dunedin, New Zealand
• May 9 Anthony Higgins, British actor (A Walk with Love and Death, Something for Everyone), born in East Northamptonshire, England
• May 10 Meg Foster, Conn, actress (Sunshine, Cagney & Lacey)
• May 12 Micheline Lanctôt, American film actor, director and screenwriter
• May 13 Edgar Burcksen, Dutch film editor
• May 14 Tamara Dobson, actress (Amazons, Cleopatra Jones), born in Baltimore, Maryland
• May 16 Bill Smitrovich, actor (Crime Story, Miami Vice)
• May 18 Candice Azzara, actress (Fatso), born in Brooklyn, New York
• May 21 Jonathan Hyde, Australian-born actor
• May 25 Karen Valentine, American actress (Love American Style, Room 222), born in Santa Rosa, California
• May 26 Sherry Bain, California, actress (Pipe Dreams)
• May 28 Sondra Locke, American actress and director (Heart Is a Lonely Hunter), born in Madison, Tennessee (d. 2018)
• May 29 Anthony Geary, actor (Luke/Bill-General Hospital), born in Coalville Utah
• Jun 1 Jonathan Pryce, Welsh stage and film actor (Brazil, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Two Popes), born in Carmel, Flintshire, Wales
• Jun 6 Robert Englund, American actor (Freddy vs. Jason, A Nightmare on Elm Street), born in Glendale, California
• Jun 8 Julie Driscoll, English rocker and actress (33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee), born in London
• Jun 15 Lee Purcell, Cherry Point NC, actor (Big Wednesday, Mr Majestyk)
• Jun 16 Tom "Bones" Malone, American jazz musician, arranger, and producer (SNL; Blues Brothers), born in Honolulu, Hawaii
• Jun 17 Christopher Allport, American actor (To Live and Die in L.A.), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 2008)
• Jun 18 Bernard Giraudeau, La Rochelle France, actor (L'Annee des Meduses)
• Jun 18 Linda Thorson, actress (Tara-Avengers, Julia-1 Life to Live), born in Toronto, Ontario
• Jun 20 Candace "Candy" Clark, American actress (Man Who Fell to Earth, Q, American Graffiti), born in Norman, Oklahoma
• Jun 21 Lex van Delden, Dutch actor (Soldier of Orange), born in Amsterdam (d. 2010)
• Jun 21 Meredith Baxter-Birney, American actress (Family Ties, Bridget Loves Bernie), born in South Pasadena, California
• Jun 21 Michael Gross, American actor (Family Ties, FBI murders), born in Chicago, Illinois
• Jun 22 David L. Lander, American actor (Laverne & Shirley - "Squiggy"), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2020)
• Jun 23 Bryan Brown, actor (F/X, Gorillas in the Mist, Kim, Tai-Pan), born in Sydney, New South Wales
• Jun 24 Walter Willison, Monterrey Park California, actor (McDuff the Talking Dog)
• Jun 24 Marianne Delgorge, Dutch singer and actress (Ice Cream Soda), born in Bloemendaal, The Netherlands
• Jun 24 Peter Weller, Stevens Point WI, actor (Robocop, Of Unknown Origin)
• Jun 25 Jimmie Walker, American comedian (JJ-Good Times, At Ease), born in The Bronx, New York
• Jun 27 Francisca "Cisca" Beaudoux, actress (2 Under a Cap)
• Jun 28 Anny Duperey, French film and television actress, born in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France

• Jun 29 Michael Carter, Scottish actor, born in Dumfries, Scotland

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